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The big event was the release of Om2008.9 Update on September 19th. Or was it a big non-event, because those who updated daily were already ahead when it was released ? Some users were surprised that the stable feeds do not update almost everything everyday anymore, but this is what stable is supposed to mean. You don't get the nice fixes in the latest kernel, but you don't get the nasty new bugs either.

Another point release: Qtopia 4.4. It's now called Qt Extended, by the way.

Applications

Also, openmoko-panel-plugin, a gtk based plugin that draws the powerstate of some FR hardware devices(i.e. gsm, gps) to a gtk based panel. Theses panels are used i.e. in xfce4. so you can enable or disable the state of your gps receiver.

Brian Code from Koolu documented how he made Linphone, that is voice over IP, work fine for him.

Hardware

Thanks to Claus and Lothar, the CAD files are now available in other formats (BRLCAD, IGES, STEP)

Michael negociated with a custom-case making company, they could build something more rugged/waterproof if the demand was high enough.

Wiki and community

The Documentation Team recategorized everything using a two-levels scheme. Browsing should be is easier now,! Of course we now need to clean up the pages inside each subcategory, but at least the big POS is not many small pos. Divide-and-conquer.

We also organized the list of applications. Now there is a [[Applications|master directory], then detailed lists by topic, and then application pages.

From the stars

There were many kernel patches about SD cards and bus speed. Confusion about which kernel version goes into which branch led to some module mismatch issues.

There are still interesting discussions on the kernel mailing list on the state of the wlan driver. For the rest of us, it means that the Wifi driver is still being actively developed. In plain English: likely to be full of bugs.

The alsa sound configuration still puzzle most users. I think that as long as alsa-mixer is based on a linear list of cryptic acronyms, we are in the dark. Could we have instead a clickable image map showing the sound chip circuits ?

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The big event was the release of Om2008.9 Update on September 19th. Or was it a big non-event, because those who updated daily were already ahead when it was released ? Some users were surprised that the stable feeds do not update almost everything everyday anymore, but this is what stable is supposed to mean. You don't get the nice fixes in the latest kernel, but you don't get the nasty new bugs either.

Another point release: Qtopia 4.4. It's now called Qt Extended, by the way.

Applications

Also, openmoko-panel-plugin, a gtk based plugin that draws the powerstate of some FR hardware devices(i.e. gsm, gps) to a gtk based panel. Theses panels are used i.e. in xfce4. so you can enable or disable the state of your gps receiver.

Brian Code from Koolu documented how he made Linphone, that is voice over IP, work fine for him.

Hardware

Thanks to Claus and Lothar, the CAD files are now available in other formats (BRLCAD, IGES, STEP)

Michael negociated with a custom-case making company, they could build something more rugged/waterproof if the demand was high enough.

Wiki and community

The Documentation Team recategorized everything using a two-levels scheme. Browsing should be is easier now,! Of course we now need to clean up the pages inside each subcategory, but at least the big POS is not many small pos. Divide-and-conquer.

We also organized the list of applications. Now there is a [[Applications|master directory], then detailed lists by topic, and then application pages.

From the stars

There were many kernel patches about SD cards and bus speed. Confusion about which kernel version goes into which branch led to some module mismatch issues.

There are still interesting discussions on the kernel mailing list on the state of the wlan driver. For the rest of us, it means that the Wifi driver is still being actively developed. In plain English: likely to be full of bugs.

The alsa sound configuration still puzzle most users. I think that as long as alsa-mixer is based on a linear list of cryptic acronyms, we are in the dark. Could we have instead a clickable image map showing the sound chip circuits ?